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A tidy white building that’s part of the compound at the Two Harbors lighthouse. Currently it serves as the place where the cashier tried to charge us an entry fee of -$50,000, but prior to that fiscal snafu, it was the place that housed the apparatus that ran the foghorn (which is still there, on the higher part of the building).
Two Harbors, Minnesota
photographed 9.23.2019
Harbor, from lighthouse
The lighthouse in Two Harbors is part of a set of museums operated by the county historical society; you can pay ten bucks a person and get to see all of them. That seemed like a pretty good deal so we went for it. The nice lady at the cash register had some sort of technical problem, resulting in our museum passes costing -$50,000. Sadly, she fixed the error before we got the 50K.
But anyway, we were in, and climbed up inside the lighthouse as far as permitted, which gave us a porthole-shaped view of the harbor.
And then, on our way out the nice lady at the cash register asked if we’d seen the ships – one leaving the port and the other coming in. It was, she said, the first time in 36 years she’d seen such a sight. Two ships! At once! How lucky for us!
Later the Patient Spouse said he thought that seeing two ships was surely a common thing, citing her first attempt at figuring out the entrance fee as a reason to doubt her veracity. I guess I see his point.
Two Harbors, Minnesota
photographed 9.23.2019
Another sort of graveyard
Intrepid woodlands explorer that I am, I was easily able to spot the dead Adirondack that the murderer had attempted to hide.
Nice try, murderer.
near Two Harbors, Minnesota
photographed 9.26.2019
